SC Magazine had a good article back in November (I am a bit behind in my reading and my blogging) about industry pioneers in IT security. Listed below are quotes by a select few of the people the mag profiled. If you find their quotes interesting, or you are not familiar with them, I suggest you check out the article and perhaps do some extra reading about some of them.

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people…” – Whitfield Diffie

“The passionate user community is the only reason Nmap has existed and been maintained…” – Gordon Lyon (aka Fyodor)

“I think it’s worked well.” – Sen. Paul Sarbanes

“I like to think of myself as a filter for good ideas.” – Marcus Ranum

P.S. Overall, I don’t like SC mag as much as other security and IT magazines, but they have enough articles here and there to keep me reading. Besides, the price is right, and I love to see that serious, unsmiling photo of Peter Stephenson in the Product Section every month.